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The summation of some geometric series a*r^(n-1) is divergent. But what i don't understand is this:
If the summation of a geometric series is divergent, then one of its sum is:
a. the sum oscillates ...

In his classic paper "Modular Equations and Approximations to $\pi$ (1914)", Ramanujan gives a standard technique to obtain a general family of series for $1/\pi$ based on series for $(2K/\pi)^{2}$ in ...

How can one calculate this: $S =\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{n^3}{4^n}$ ? I guess there must be a recurrent expression for elements, which could be transformed into an equation for $S$ by making $n ...

I am analyzing the average time complexity of some algorithm on some probabilistic model, and I've come to a doubly exponential sequence for which I cannot find corresponding generating function. I ...

In this article, I give counterexamples regarding real sequences. And in that one some others.
In particular counterexamples answering questions like: "If for all $p \in \mathbb{N}$ $\lim\limits_{n ...

Fix $q$ to be a positive integer. Let $$f : \mathbb{N} \to \{-1 ,0, 1\}$$ be a $q$-periodic arithmetic function such that $$\sum_{n = 1}^q f(n) = 0.$$ If $f$ is not identically zero, is it true that ...

does the series $\sum_{n=0}^\infty p^n \binom{x}{p^n}$ have a closed form ? ($p$ prime)
this is a special case of $\sum_{n=0}^\infty p^n \left(\sum_{k=p^n}^{p^{n+1}-1}a_k\binom{x}{k}\right)$ with the ...

Newton series is the following expansion of a function:
$$f(x)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty \binom{x}k \Delta^k [f]\left (0\right)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {x\choose n} \sum_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}(-1)^{k-n}f(k)$$
Now ...

Suppose we start with $k$ primes $p_1,p_2,\ldots ,p_k$ (not necessarily consecutive) and a residue class for each prime $r_1,r_2,\ldots ,r_k$.
We denote the least integer not covered by the arithmetic ...

I first asked the following question on Mathematics StackExchange (a few weeks ago), since the content of MathOverflow is mostly above my academic level. I didn't want to bother people on this forum ...

Be a set of numbers $v=(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n)$
I want to form the following average vector $\mu = (\frac{\sum a_i}{n}, \frac{\sum a_i}{n}, \ldots, \frac{\sum a_i}{n})$.
If I do it iteratively step ...

I recently came across the following function which intrigues me:
\begin{equation}
f(\alpha):=\sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{\alpha^{i(i+1)/2}}{i!}.
\end{equation}
For $-1\leq \alpha\leq 1$ this function is ...

The series
$$\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{\exp(c k \beta)}{(k!)^\beta} $$
has come up when I'm trying to apply the methodology in this paper (http://www.ism.ac.jp/~eguchi/pdf/Robustify_MLE.pdf) to Poisson ...

I asked the question at MSE
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/982388/simple-finite-series-with-reciprocal-factorials
but got no answer or comment (it is not a homework).
I'm trying to find the ...

So we've been using summations at least since the dawn of calculus. I'm wondering how the process of summing a function came to be known? Are there events that led to the invention of the summation ...

It is well known that the series $\sum_{p\in \mathbb{P}} \frac{1}{p}$ diverges where $\mathbb{P}$ denotes the set of primes. Brun proved that $\sum_{p\in \mathbb{P_2}} \frac{1}{p}$ converges where $ ...

I recently encountered the following function
$$
f(t) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{t^{n^2}}{n^2!}.
$$
It seems familiar, though I cannot remember where I might have seen it before. I would like to know ...

These are two possible definitions of antiderivative (integral) incorporating a supposedly natural choice of an integration constant (see this question for further details).
The first one is based on ...